Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 31, 2024

Let’s examine that … Back in the 80’s, I was the sales manager for a local office equipment company. It was then that I had an epiphany. There is a caveat to this title. Not a lot of money, but a nice touch regardless. This gave the customer an extra layer of confidence. No company is perfect. To err is human.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 24, 2015

Sales Tips: Making Sense of Vague Advice. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. My sales manager frightened new people into making the prescribed number of calls, but did little to impact the quality of calls that we made. It was a mountain to climb.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 8, 2017

Many salespeople and managers feel that the greatest barriers to maximizing productivity and achieving greater results point to gaps in their product, service, process or people. If we were to focus on sales, the ability to actively listen has been proven to dramatically improve trust and the capabilities of a professional salesperson.

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Keith Rosen

JUNE 2, 2010

Since my last book, Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions , I’ve been spending the majority of my time (every week!) delivering my management coach training programs for both domestic and global organizations. ” Can you envision the salesperson walking out of that conversation with a powerful epiphany?

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Keith Rosen

JULY 20, 2009

Granted, managers are often left in a state of shock when they see what their salespeople are and are not doing and saying when meeting with and presenting to their prospects and customers.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

From quite early on in our sales careers, we are encouraged to explore every sales opportunity that presents itself – in fact in some companies, they are brainwashed into believing that “all business is good business.” Finally, they are able to recognize fail-safe signals that indicate when a sale is in jeopardy.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. As a manager (and as a salesperson), I had my pluses and minuses. A prospecting epiphany. I acted like the sale was already mine. I knew how to qualify.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 25, 2019

Sales Expert interview covers: Traps we fall into and create. Epiphany breakthroughs get you to a new level of thinking. John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling.

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Chili Piper

AUGUST 27, 2018

I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Slow lead response times.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 8, 2012

By the end of this year we will have increased sales of product A by 25% on the last year’s volumes and maintained our profit margins. I then discovered that multi-level objectives was a very powerful way to both win and retain business. These objectives are specific – very clear. “

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Chili Piper

AUGUST 27, 2018

I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Slow lead response times.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 24, 2022

Our second episode of Ready, Set, Sell , recently aired featuring Alice Heiman, Founder & Chief Sales Energizer of Sales Strategies for CEOs with Alice Heiman. Re-framing sales for modern customers. What makes a world-class sales organization. How sales leaders can level up their teams (Hint: coaching is key).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 19, 2018

We were targeting large enterprises and the sales people that worked for me understood that sales success is largely derived from having the right relationships with people, and they also talked about strategy; but when I quizzed any of them about what 'strategy' actually meant in the real world, each was like a deer in the headlights.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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